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JEFF The Brotherhood

Eve Maret | Rated Age

JEFF The Brotherhood

JEFF The Brotherhood is an art project started by brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall in 2002 in a basement in Nashville, TN. Their musical works are influenced by many types of music including krautrock, jazz, black metal, and the avant garde.

Over the last decade their art has taken them all over the world including Hawaii, New Zealand and Russia. They have given well over a thousand live performances and created countless art objects including zines, puppets, videos, and twelve full length albums.

The Brotherhood was started with one goal in mind, to do or create whatever they feel with no rules or boundaries. Their latest offering Magick Songs marks a departure from the band's established sound. Elements of 80's Japanese experimental music meld with Indonesian Gamelan forms, clever improvisation and abundant hand percussion and synthesizer. The majority of the compositions were written in collaboration with Kunal Prakash (Viva L'American Death Ray Music/Quintron's Weather Warlock Band) and Jack Lawrence (The Greenhornes/Raconteurs/The Dead Weather), and also feature a host of guest collaborations including vocals by Jenna Moynihan (Daddy Issues/Fever Blush) and saxophone and clarinet by Reece Lazarus (Bully). The sprawling double album was written and recorded over six months at Jake Orrall's house in Nashville. The improvised bare bones studio contributed to the relaxed, exploratory nature of the compositions and was a new and enlightening experience for the group.

JEFF The Brotherhood's Magick Songs will be released on Dine Alone Records on August 24th. It is available for preorder here.

JEFF The Brotherhood is an art project started by brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall in 2002 in a basement in Nashville, TN. Their musical works are influenced by many types of music including krautrock, jazz, black metal, and the avant garde.

Over the last decade their art has taken them all over the world including Hawaii, New Zealand and Russia. They have given well over a thousand live performances and created countless art objects including zines, puppets, videos, and twelve full length albums.

The Brotherhood was started with one goal in mind, to do or create whatever they feel with no rules or boundaries. Their latest offering Magick Songs marks a departure from the band's established sound. Elements of 80's Japanese experimental music meld with Indonesian Gamelan forms, clever improvisation and abundant hand percussion and synthesizer. The majority of the compositions were written in collaboration with Kunal Prakash (Viva L'American Death Ray Music/Quintron's Weather Warlock Band) and Jack Lawrence (The Greenhornes/Raconteurs/The Dead Weather), and also feature a host of guest collaborations including vocals by Jenna Moynihan (Daddy Issues/Fever Blush) and saxophone and clarinet by Reece Lazarus (Bully). The sprawling double album was written and recorded over six months at Jake Orrall's house in Nashville. The improvised bare bones studio contributed to the relaxed, exploratory nature of the compositions and was a new and enlightening experience for the group.

JEFF The Brotherhood's Magick Songs will be released on Dine Alone Records on August 24th. It is available for preorder here.

Eve Maret

If you've been keeping up with the happenings in Nashville's electronic music community, you'll probably recognize Eve Maret's name. In the fall, the synth wizard released the intriguing single "No More Running," a composition with lots of pulsing, shape-shifting layers of melody and harmony and filtered vocals. The piece seems to play on the boundaries between what's organic and what's artificial — something that was being explored by a lot of punk and synth-pop artists in the late ’70s and early ’80s, but certainly remains relevant in the information age, especially in a sociopolitical climate in which objective facts are being called into question.

Intrigued? Here's some fantastic news: Maret is set to release an album, also called No More Running, on Aug. 17 via local label Banana Tapes. Today we're very pleased to premiere a music video for the title track. In the piece, directed by Elise Drake, Maret sings the lyrics and moves gently as layers of projected light and other images of herself drift in and out of the foreground, blurring perspectives.

Check that out above, and preorder your copy (digital or cassette) of the album via Bandcamp. There's a release show planned for Aug. 17, but all the details have yet to be confirmed — keep an eye on Banana Tapes' Facebook profile for updates.

If you've been keeping up with the happenings in Nashville's electronic music community, you'll probably recognize Eve Maret's name. In the fall, the synth wizard released the intriguing single "No More Running," a composition with lots of pulsing, shape-shifting layers of melody and harmony and filtered vocals. The piece seems to play on the boundaries between what's organic and what's artificial — something that was being explored by a lot of punk and synth-pop artists in the late ’70s and early ’80s, but certainly remains relevant in the information age, especially in a sociopolitical climate in which objective facts are being called into question.

Intrigued? Here's some fantastic news: Maret is set to release an album, also called No More Running, on Aug. 17 via local label Banana Tapes. Today we're very pleased to premiere a music video for the title track. In the piece, directed by Elise Drake, Maret sings the lyrics and moves gently as layers of projected light and other images of herself drift in and out of the foreground, blurring perspectives.

Check that out above, and preorder your copy (digital or cassette) of the album via Bandcamp. There's a release show planned for Aug. 17, but all the details have yet to be confirmed — keep an eye on Banana Tapes' Facebook profile for updates.